Wormwood Selenga
Selenga wormwood is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Asteraceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Artemisia selengensis Turcz.
As for the name of the Selenga wormwood family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).
Description of Selenga wormwood
Selenga wormwood is a perennial plant endowed with a woody rhizome, the thickness of which does not reach even one centimeter. The stem of this plant is straight, its height will vary between seventy-five and one hundred and twenty centimeters, such a stem will be colored in reddish-brown or light greenish tones. Most often, the stem of Selenga wormwood is grooved and bare, as well as deciduous, simple or almost simple. The leaves of this plant will be bare, green on top, and white-cobwebby-felt underneath. The lower and partly middle stem leaves of Selenga wormwood will fall off during flowering, their length is eight to twelve centimeters. The blade of such leaves will be almost oval or broadly oval, as well as pinnately dissected, with only five lobes, but sometimes there can be seven of them. The upper stem leaves of this plant will be sessile, they are dissected into three to five lobes or may be simple, the uppermost leaves will be short and linear, they are not exposed from the inflorescence. The baskets of this plant can be either sessile or on legs; the length of such baskets is three to four millimeters, and the width is about two to two and a half millimeters. Such baskets of Selenga wormwood will be very close together on fairly short branches, which in turn will be slightly deflected or pressed. As a result, a long narrow paniculate inflorescence is formed. There are only eight to twelve flowers of this plant, they will be pistillate, the corolla itself is filiform-tubular, and the disc flowers will be bisexual, there will be only ten to twelve of them. The corolla is punctate-glandular and conical. The length of the achenes of Selenga wormwood will slightly exceed one millimeter, they will be smooth, ovoid, flat, they are colored brown, and at the top such achenes will be endowed with an unequal edge, which in turn is somewhat drawn out.
Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the Far East, Daursky region of Eastern Siberia, Mongolia and Northeast China.
Description of the medicinal properties of Selenga wormwood
Selenga wormwood is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The concept of grass includes inflorescences, stems and leaves.
An aqueous infusion prepared from the inflorescences, leaves and herb of Selenga wormwood is recommended for use for diarrhea, enterocolitis, internal bleeding, colitis, flatulence for adults and children, and such remedies are also used to improve appetite. Fresh leaves of this plant are indicated for use on abrasions, wounds and bruises; in addition, the leaves of Selenga wormwood are used in the form of an alcohol tincture.
For flatulence and all of the above diseases, it is recommended to use the following very effective remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a healing remedy, you will need to take two teaspoons of crushed dry herb Selenga wormwood per glass of boiling water. The resulting mixture should be infused for about two hours in a sealed container, after which it is recommended to strain this healing mixture very carefully. Take this remedy based on Selenga wormwood three times a day, about twenty to thirty minutes before meals, one or two tablespoons.
